Well, M^{rs}.  Bride, how’s your head so out of order! might not you now do (as once a Schoolmaster did) hang out the sign of a troubled pate with a Crown upon it?  How glad you’l be when this confusion is once over? could you ever have thought that there was so much work to be found in it?  But comfort your self therewith, that for these few troublesom daies, you’l have many pleasant nights.  And it is not your case alone, to be in all this trouble, for the Bridegroom is running up and down like a dog, in taking care that the Banns of Matrimony may be proclaim’d.  And now he’s a running to and again through the City, to see if he can get Bridemen to his mind, that are capacitated to entertain the Bridemaids and Gentlewomen with pretty discourses, waiting upon them, & to make mirth & pleasure for them and the rest of the Company.  Besides that he’s taking care for the getting of some good Canary, Rhenish & French Wines, that those friends which come to wish the Bride and Bridegroom much joy, may be presented with a delicate glass of Wine.  And principally, that those who are busie about the Brides adornments, may tast the Brides tears.

But really friends, if you come to tast the Brides tears now, ’tis a great while too soon:  But if you’l have of the right and unfeigned ones, you must come some months hence.

O Bridegroom, who can but pitty you, that you must thus toil, moil, and run up and down, and the Jeweller and you have just now mist one another; he is doubtless chatting with the Bride, and shewing of her some costly Jewels, which perhaps dislike her ne’r a whit the worse; and what she has then a mind to, you’l find work enough to disswade her from, let them cost what they will; for she’l let you take care for that.  And it is time enough to be considered on, when the weddings over.  For now you have as much work as you can turn your self to, in getting all your things in a readiness from the Tailor, Semstress, and Haberdasher.  And herewith, alas, you’l find that oftentimes two or three weeks are consumed in this sort of business, with the greatest slavery imaginable.

Yet, M^{r}.  Bridegroom, for all these troubles, you may expect this reward, to have the pleasure of the best place in the Chancel, with a golden Tapistry laid before you, and for your honour the Organs playing.  The going with a Coach to marry at a Country Town, has not half so much grace, and will not at all please the Bride:  it is therefore requisite to consult with the friends on both sides, who shall be invited to the wedding, and who not.  For it seldom happens, but there is one broil or another about it; and that’s no sooner don, but there arises a new quarrel, to consider, how richly or frugally the Guests shall be treated; for they would come off with credit and little charge.  To this is required the advice of a steward, because it is their daily work.  And he for favour of the Cook, Pasterer, and Poulterer